The Week in Review: November 1st, 2015

I hope everyone had a happy Halloween! I was boxing!R2D2, as inspired by that ripped R2D2 action figure picture set. I am now exhausted from a Halloween parade and watching The Addams Family, so forgive my brevity.

If SNL had a better track record of hiring Latino staffers, then perhaps there would be less controversy over Trump’s hosting stint. Or perhaps they would have thought harder about whether it made sense to bring him on the show at all.

Because it’s hard to imagine Michaels forcing star Kate McKinnon, who is gay, to perform alongside a guest host with a history of making bigoted statements about gay people. Or pushing black cast members like Kenan Thompson to yuk it up alongside a celebrity guest who had expressed bigotry about African-Americans.

You see, that’s the power of having real diversity on your staff or in your show. It makes you think more intentionally about things you should have been deliberately focused on in the first place.

Speaking of character design, do you watch the Syfy show Face Off? Beeeecause I feel that you would love it? Insofar as I feel that literally everyone everywhere would love it, and I recommend it constantly to try and get it a broader audience. It’s a reality competition show for monster makeup artists, basically, and it’s fascinating. And the competitors are nice to each other! They’re not all cut-throat and drama-y; they’re just nice people who support their colleagues and want to see them succeed. It’s a wonderful show.

I’ve seen about half of an episode, but the work I saw was really amazing! Once I’ve blasted through Jem and the Holograms, I could use a background noise television show when I’m working on projects. Does Syfy have a streaming service for it?